Job Summary:
Western Alliance Bank is a wholly owned subsidiary of Western Alliance Bancorporation, serving clients nationwide. The Principal Engineer II is a senior technical leader responsible for the administration, security integration, and continuous improvement of the organization’s development, testing, and DevOps capabilities, with a strong focus on secure development practices.
Responsibilities:
• Administer, secure, and optimize enterprise development platforms and application security tooling (Azure DevOps, GitHub Enterprise, SonarQube, Invicti, and GitHub Advanced Security).
• Design and maintain integrations across development, CI/CD, security and workflows tools to ensure seamless and auditable pipelines.
• Embed security controls and automation across CI/CD pipelines consistent with DevSecOps principles.
• Partner with application security and risk teams to operationalize policies for Static Application Security Testing (SAST), Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST), and Software Composition Analysis (SCA).
• Provide technical leadership across all stages of the SDLC, including design, development, testing, release and maintenance.
• Define and promote best practices, technology standards, and engineering standards for the Development Architecture and DevOps team.
• Develop and delivery training, documentation, and hand-on enablement for development and security tooling.
• Collaborate with Architecture, Infrastructure, Security and Risk teams to align tooling with enterprise standards.
• Act as a trusted advisor and mentor development teams by providing guidance on secure coding practices, pipeline security, modern DevOps practices and assist in remediation of security findings.
• Supports audits and regulatory reviews by providing evidence, documentation, and tool transparency.
• Evaluate new tools and capabilities, providing recommendations based on risk, scalability, and business value.
Qualifications:
Required:
• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, DevOps, or platform engineering roles.
• Bachelor's degree in related field required; Masters or MBA in related field preferred.
• Strong hands-on experience administering enterprise development platforms such as Azure DevOps and/or GitHub Enterprise.
• Proven expertise with application security tooling, including SAST, DAST, and SCA solutions.
• Deep understanding of the software development lifecycle (SDLC) and DevSecOps best practices.
• Proficiency in Git including branching strategies and pull request best practices.
• The Objective mindset that can think ‘enterprise first’ and remain unbiased toward any specific technology or vendor choice, with decisions made based on data, analysis, & POC results.
• Advanced to expert experience in leading cross-functional teams and managing multiple projects simultaneously.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor, train, and influence engineers across multiple teams.
• Advanced to expert familiarity with the capability model across IT and the applications and infrastructures available for engagement in solutioning across the bank.
• Expert documentation and communication skills, with the ability to translate complex technical topics for broad audiences.
• Experience in the following tools and technologies: Atlassian Confluence, LucidChart, Ansible, Terraform, Kubernetes.
• Advanced to expert knowledge with regulatory frameworks such as SOX, FFIEC, NIST, or similar.
• Advanced knowledge operating in a regulated or financial services environment with strong audit and compliance requirements.
• Previous leadership experience.
Preferred:
• Masters or MBA in related field.
• SonarQube, Invicti, GitHub Advanced Security.
• Experience in the following tools and technologies: Atlassian Confluence, LucidChart, Ansible, Terraform, Kubernetes.
• Advanced to expert knowledge with regulatory frameworks such as SOX, FFIEC, NIST, or similar.
• Advanced knowledge operating in a regulated or financial services environment with strong audit and compliance requirements.
• Previous leadership experience.
Company:
Western Alliance Bank is a banking firm that offers commercial and business banking solutions. Founded in 1994, the company is headquartered in Phoenix, USA, with a team of 1001-5000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.